That’s what some analysts here predict after looking at the deal Disney announced yesterday to license movies and TV shows to NetMovies Entertainment, a Brazilian competitor to Netflix. The release says this is “the first major global studio deal for NetMovies,” which is described as “Brazil’s largest and most comprehensive online subscription service for movies and TV series” with more than 35,000 titles in its library. The multiyear deal will enable NetMovies’ subscribers to see a “large array” of Disney’s movie and TV content via broadband — including the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, Wild Hogs, Desperate Housewives, Criminal Minds, and Brothers And Sisters. Customers also can rent DVD and Blu-ray discs. Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Vasily Karasyov says this morning that the agreement with Disney ”illustrates our argument that studios will work hard to ensure that Netflix isn’t the only buyer of streaming rights.” And although BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield questions how well financed NetMovies is, with competitors such as Amazon, Apple, Dish Network, and Google ramping up their online video businesses here Disney’s agreement with NetMovies could cause Netflix’s “wounds to fester” as it tries to expand in Latin America. International growth “is becoming more important daily” for Netflix, he says.


Seu cinema em casa. Cool.
But here in Brazil streaming is still pretty weak, our internet speed sucks, quite expensive still =)
What was Netflix waiting for? US domesticoids. World wasn’t sitting on its duff while Netflix deigned to enter with its brilliance? Intl should have been priority 3 years ago. Should be on the ground by now in all the majors, UK, Germ, France, Spain, Japn, Korea, however ya slice um, by territory or language. Misunderstood their success from the start. Studios used Netflix to counter Blockbuster’s strength, not because they love loved Netflix’s biz models. Three years ago studios confused on digital. That period of confusion is over. Much tougher now.